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Old 08-14-2006 | 09:59 AM
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Default RE: Tutorials on Knife edge flight

I think a lot of this comes from the impacts advancing technology has had on our hobby. So many active modelers (I'm one of them) were flying before we had servo reversing. I hear lots of grumbling at my field about how mixing and computer radios are a crutch and fly the plane for you. My take is they don't really understand the intent of these features and simply equate them with the snap roll buttons of years gone by. What we're talking about is similar to the difference between a straight and a warped (we used to call them bananas) fuselage. If you had the chance to build one straight as opposed to crooked, or go back and fix one that wasn't straght, wouldn't you? We're doing the same thing electronically. It does nothing more than take away the destraction of poor performance so you can begin to concentrate on flying well. I remember an article of Don Lowe's in RCM. He said something like, and this is remembered from 30 years ago, so fogive me if I don't get it right, the pilot should interrupt the straight flight of the aircraft as little as possible.